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Gunicorn.sock files : How are they generated? Where should they be located?

Posted February 26, 201515.6k views

Hi I’m currently trying to follow a tutorial on installing nginx with gunicorn and django. I’ve combed the web for more docs/explanation on the gunicorn.sock file, it’s contents and location.

So far all the tutorials I’ve seen include such a file, but do not explain fully their purpose. Can anyone on digital ocean shed more light on these? I’ve done a search for ‘gunicorn.sock’ on docs.gunicorn.org but I get the boilerplate 'Your search did not match any documents…’

yeah i’ve had the same questions for awhile now as well. Several tutorials on deploying django, gunicorn and nginx talk about daemonizing/automating gunicorn but in the conf files, it specifies a .sock file. where is this .sock file? is it usually created automatically by whichever WSGI you choose i.e uWSGI, gunicorn? i tried to find the .sock file for my respective django app on ubuntu using find command but no luck. i want to use supervisor to automate gunicorn but i dont fully understand the conf file for superviser.